One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.